software-center crashed with TypeError in on_render()

[Surya Pratap]

Binary package hint: software-center

Ubuntu 10.04 LSB

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 28 23:43:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: software-center 1.1.14
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with TypeError in on_render()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/appview.py", line 703, in on_render
     layout.set_markup(self.markup)
 TypeError: PangoLayout.set_markup() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not None
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Surya. Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Surya Pratap (pratap-surya)]

I am sorry for the delay, I had actually switched to pardus linux for a
while, I have reinstalled ubuntu 9.10 now and will upgrade the software
using software center soon, please let me know if I should lookout for
anything in particular. The crash occured after a similar upgrade last time

On 4/15/2010 6:18 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? Thanks!
>
>

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!